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Why the Data Journey Manifesto?

DataKitchen

We wrote the first version because, after talking with hundreds of people at the 2016 Strata Hadoop World Conference, very few easily understood what we discussed at our booth and conference session. I spent much time de-categorizing DataOps: we are not discussing ETL, Data Lake, or Data Science. Why should I care?

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What a quarter century of digital transformation at PayPal looks like

CIO Business Intelligence

From 2016 to 2022, the company went from processing a payments volume of $354 billion to $1.36 This also allows us to have the best in terms of global technology, fraud mitigation and prevention, and cybersecurity measures in all markets, all while complying with local regulations and compliance requirements.” trillion last year.

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Insight Boston Alumni: Where are they now?

Insight

Insight Boston began its journey in 2015, with the first and only fellowship program dedicated to a career in Health Data Science. In 2017, we expanded the location to include our Data Science program, and in early 2018, we welcomed our first Data Engineering Fellows.

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My 10-step path to becoming a remote data scientist with Automattic

Data Science and Beyond

Ideally, I wanted a well-paid data science-y remote job with an established distributed tech company that offers a good life balance and makes products I care about. While data wrangler may sound less sexy than data scientist , reading the job ad led me to believe that the position may involve interesting data science work.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Taking measurements at parameter settings further from control parameter settings leads to a lower variance estimate of the slope of the line relating the metric to the parameter.

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The Gartner 2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics Leaders Questions and Answers

Andrew White

First, how we measure emissions and carbon footprint is about data design and policy. In other words, D&A plays a key role in the foundational measuring angle. – We did some early work a few years ago that look at the career path of a CDO – see from 2016 Build Your Career Path to the Chief Data Officer Role.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Paco Nathan ‘s latest monthly article covers Sci Foo as well as why data science leaders should rethink hiring and training priorities for their data science teams. In this episode I’ll cover themes from Sci Foo and important takeaways that data science teams should be tracking. Introduction.